from Tkinter import * from tkColorChooser import askcolor def setBgColor(): (triple, hexstr) = askcolor() if hexstr: print hexstr push.config(bg=hexstr) root = Tk() push = Button(root, text='Set Background Color', command=setBgColor) push.config(height=3, font=('times', 20, 'bold')) push.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) root.mainloop()